"Mr Autumfield!" Dillim shouted. There was silence again,
except for the waves.

"I see something," Layower said. It looked like a dead body.
Only dead bodies don't move…

"He's alive!" Layower shouted.

"Mr Autumfield!" Dillim shouted again.

"Dillim?" he said weakly. Layower could see him, the fog was
clearing.

"Dad, are you ok?" Layower shouted down.

"Yeah, I have tons of cuts and bruises though," he said.

"How are you going to get up?" Dillim asked.

"We're going to miss the bus," Layower said. This wouldn't
have occurred to the average person, who'd just be glad their Dad
was alright, but Layower wasn't the average person.

"Does that matter?" Dillim shouted.

Layower's Dad started climbing up.

"I think I can get a grip," he said.

After about 5 minutes he climbed up.

"We'd better run, I can see the bus!" Dad shouted. He
couldn't run though, and the boys had to help him stay up.

They waved at the bus, which was just leaving. The bus driver
saw them and stopped.

"Are you alright?" He asked Dad when he limped onto the bus.

"Yeah, I just had a fall," he replied. Then he covered his
face with his hands.

"I must have left my wallet at the bottom of the cliff.

"The tide was coming in," Layower said. Again, he was
surprised that under the circumstances he'd noticed that.

"I have some money in my pocket," Dillim said. It was just
enough to pay for the trip.

"Thank you Dillim!" Dad said when they sat down.

Layower could see why the bus driver was surprised when he saw
dad, he had blood stained all over his shirt.

Eventually they arrived, and Layower and Dillim helped Dad
into the house. Mum and Aunt Carol got a shock when they saw
him.

"It's just one thing after another!" shrieked Mum. "First
Diane, then Van, then the crash, Robert, and now this!"

She was hysterical for quite a while.

Eventually they recovered from it, and normal life began.
Aunt Bella had to sell the farm; she couldn't do the work on her
own. Layower offered to help, but she still didn't trust him.
She said she was retiring.

By that point Dillim only had a few days left. Dillim was
Layower's only friend, and from what he had said, in America he
didn't have many friends either. His school was tiny (smaller
than the one in Neyunn) and all the people there smoked and took
drugs.

Layower was still being bullied at his school. He had 10
months before the move to England…